Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Claire - 28 April 2008
It’s weird. My body needs to move. I want to go for a long walk and enjoy the spring sunshine. I want to go on a hike and explore a forest. I want to ride a bike. To ski. To run up the stairs, two at a time. Dance. I want to move.
I need to move continues »
by Claire - 24 April 2008
It still amazes me that after so much time living with us, and talking to us, that our partners show so little real understanding of our condition, and so little love and acceptance when it comes to dealing with it.
Partners are supposed to help us through life’s difficult times - so why do they make things harder? continues »
by Claire - 16 April 2008
Recently, reading a discussion unrelated to BIID I was struck when someone told someone else “you must be mental” and clearly meant it as an insult.
You must be mental continues »
by Claire - 13 February 2008
I posted something on Paradevo today and was subsequently begged by Sean to make it into a post on Transabled (I think he was miffed that I posted there and haven’t been posting here!). So here it is, my answer to the question of why is it that everyone thinks BIID is so repulsive, as posted at PD:
Cross-post by request (or, why is BIID so repulsive?) continues »
by Claire - 23 December 2007
Disability activists say that they don’t like the phrase “wheelchair bound” because “bound” implies that they are stuck, tied down, immobile, whereas in reality the wheelchair gives them freedom and they can be quite mobile (in an accessible world). I can understand this intellectually, with that limited understanding of someone who has never lived it.
Wheelchair bound? continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2008 - All Rights Reserved.